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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Col. Smedly-Taylor ask Yoshima?
(a) About better food and medicine.
(b) About what happened to Sgt. Masters.
(c) About why the Americans are receiving a greater share of the portions.
(d) About how the war is going.

2. What does King want Marlowe to do?
(a) Discipline two of the British airmen.
(b) Negotiate with Grey about the diamond.
(c) Go with him outside the wire.
(d) Build a radio.

3. What do three officers share after the rain?
(a) An egg mixed in rice and a cigarette.
(b) Information from the wireless.
(c) A rare cigar.
(d) Some illegal hooch.

4. What does the doctor rule as cause of death on Gurble?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Malaria.

5. What does King see in Marlowe's offer?
(a) An attempt to entrap the King.
(b) A catch somewhere.
(c) Commercial value.
(d) A kindness the King does not deserve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eve?

2. By what are King and Marlowe shaken?

3. Who reprimands both Lt. Grey and the man he summons?

4. Why is Grey angry?

5. What fault does Col. Brant find with the King?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe The King.

2. What does Lt. Grey think should happen to the diamond and what does Larkin reply?

3. Who is the Provost Marshal and what is he doing at the opening of Chapter 1.

4. Why does Lt. Grey arrest two of Larkin's men and what is Larkin's response?

5. Why are Marlowe's bungalow mates upset that Marlowe refuses the King's offer of a percentage of the tobacco profits?

6. What message does Grey get and how does he respond?

7. Describe the first meeting between The King and Marlowe.

8. Why are Marlowe and Cox standing sentry duty?

9. Why does Marlowe run for his water bottle?

10. What secret does the King leak to the Australians and how does Marlowe react to the news?

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